My parents and grandparents taught us a lot — not Chinese or maths but a sense of values, of how you should be and how you should treat others.

[to Evian] Well, you should be embarrassed because your parents named you after bottled water!

I hope you will find another one who is both beautiful and good to take my place and serve our parents and bring up my children, and then I shall die content.

But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.